Event Representation In Language And Cognition

Author : Jürgen Bohnemeyer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139493671
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Event Representation in Language and Cognition written by Jürgen Bohnemeyer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-12-23 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Event Representation in Language and Cognition examines new research into how the mind deals with the experience of events. Empirical research into the cognitive processes involved when people view events and talk about them is still a young field. The chapters by leading experts draw on data from the description of events in spoken and signed languages, first and second language acquisition, co-speech gesture and eye movements during language production, and from non-linguistic categorization and other tasks. The book highlights newly found evidence for how perception, thought, and language constrain each other in the experience of events. It will be of particular interest to linguists, psychologists, and philosophers, as well as to anyone interested in the representation and processing of events.

Author : Jürgen Bohnemeyer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780511918193
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Event Representation in Language and Cognition written by Jürgen Bohnemeyer and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jeffrey M. Zacks
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004395169
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ten Lectures on the Representation of Events in Language, Perception, Memory, and Action Control written by Jeffrey M. Zacks and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The representation of events is a central topic for cognitive science. In this series of lectures, Jeffrey M. Zacks situates event representations and their role in language within a theory of perception and memory. Event representations have a distinctive structure and format that result from computational and neural mechanisms operating during perception and language comprehension. A crucial aspect of the mechanisms is that event representations are updated to optimize their predictive utility. This updating has consequences for action control and for long-term memory. Event cognition changes across the adult lifespan and can be impaired by conditions including Alzheimer's disease. These mechanisms have broad impact on everyday activity, and have shaped the development of media such as cinema and narrative fiction"--

Author : Gabriel A. Radvansky
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199898146
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Event Cognition written by Gabriel A. Radvansky and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-09 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of our behavior is guided by our understanding of events. We perceive events when we observe the world unfolding around us, participate in events when we act on the world, simulate events that we hear or read about, and use our knowledge of events to solve problems. In this book, Gabriel A. Radvansky and Jeffrey M. Zacks provide the first integrated framework for event cognition and attempt to synthesize the available psychological and neuroscience data surrounding it. This synthesis leads to new proposals about several traditional areas in psychology and neuroscience including perception, attention, language understanding, memory, and problem solving. Radvansky and Zacks have written this book with a diverse readership in mind. It is intended for a range of researchers working within cognitive science including psychology, neuroscience, computer science, philosophy, anthropology, and education. Readers curious about events more generally such as those working in literature, film theory, and history will also find it of interest.

Author : Thomas F. Shipley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198040709
Total Pages : 733 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Events written by Thomas F. Shipley and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-02-25 with total page 733 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We effortlessly recognize all sorts of events--from simple events like people walking to complex events like leaves blowing in the wind. We can also remember and describe these events, and in general, react appropriately to them, for example, in avoiding an approaching object. Our phenomenal ease interacting with events belies the complexity of the underlying processes we use to deal with them. Driven by an interest in these complex processes, research on event perception has been growing rapidly. Events are the basis of all experience, so understanding how humans perceive, represent, and act on them will have a significant impact on many areas of psychology. Unfortunately, much of the research on event perception--in visual perception, motor control, linguistics, and computer science--has progressed without much interaction. This volume is the first to bring together computational, neurological, and psychological research on how humans detect, classify, remember, and act on events. The book will provide professional and student researchers with a comprehensive collection of the latest research in these diverse fields.

Author : Ray S. Jackendoff
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262600132
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Semantics and Cognition written by Ray S. Jackendoff and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1985-09-10 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book emphasizes the role of semantics as a bridge between the theory of language and the theories of other cognitive capacities such as visual perception and motor control.

Author : Antoine Culioli
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027276536
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cognition and Representation in Linguistic Theory written by Antoine Culioli and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1995-09-21 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objective of this book is to better acquaint English-speaking linguistics with a corpus of texts hitherto untranslated, containing the cognitive-based research in formal linguistics of one of the most important theoreticians in the field: Antoine Culioli (b. 1924). Culioli's viewpoint is grounded in Emile Benveniste's (1902-1976) revolutionary answer to Saussure's opposition between competence (langue) and performance (parole) captured in the idea of énonciation, in which the relationship between an individual and a language is one of appropriation. The translation has been prepared to provide the reader with as obstacle-free a path as one can clear to a theory that requires, and indeed commands, a very close, attentive reading. As an additional aid to understand Culioli's argument, footnotes throughout the work show similarities and differences with the work of the cognitive linguist Ronald W. Langacker.

Author : Kasia M. Jaszczolt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199589879
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Time: Language, Cognition & Reality written by Kasia M. Jaszczolt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-27 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Linguists and philosophers examine the representation of temporal reference; the interaction of the temporal information from tense, aspect, modality, and context; and the representation of the temporal relations between facts, events, states, propositions, and utterances. They link this to current research in psychology and anthropology.

Author : Luna Filipovi?
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 902727360X
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Space and Time in Languages and Cultures written by Luna Filipovi? and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07-24 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an interdisciplinary volume that focuses on the central topic of the representation of events, namely cross-cultural differences in representing time and space, as well as various aspects of the conceptualisation of space and time. It brings together research on space and time from a variety of angles, both theoretical and methodological. Crossing boundaries between and among disciplines such as linguistics, psychology, philosophy, or anthropology forms a creative platform in a bold attempt to reveal the complex interaction of language, culture, and cognition in the context of human communication and interaction. The authors address the nature of spatial and temporal constructs from a number of perspectives, such as cultural specificity in determining time intervals in an Amazonian culture, distinct temporalities in a specific Mongolian hunter community, Russian-specific conceptualisation of temporal relations, Seri and Yucatec frames of spatial reference, memory of events in space and time, and metaphorical meaning stemming from perception and spatial artefacts, to name but a few themes. The topic of space and time in language and culture is also represented, from a different albeit related point of view, in the sister volume Space and Time in Languages and Cultures: Linguistic diversity (HCP 36) which focuses on the language-specific vis-à-vis universal aspects of linguistic representation of spatial and temporal reference.

Author : Thomas F. Shipley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190293314
Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Events written by Thomas F. Shipley and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-02-25 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We effortlessly recognize all sorts of events--from simple events like people walking to complex events like leaves blowing in the wind. We can also remember and describe these events, and in general, react appropriately to them, for example, in avoiding an approaching object. Our phenomenal ease interacting with events belies the complexity of the underlying processes we use to deal with them. Driven by an interest in these complex processes, research on event perception has been growing rapidly. Events are the basis of all experience, so understanding how humans perceive, represent, and act on them will have a significant impact on many areas of psychology. Unfortunately, much of the research on event perception--in visual perception, motor control, linguistics, and computer science--has progressed without much interaction. This volume is the first to bring together computational, neurological, and psychological research on how humans detect, classify, remember, and act on events. The book will provide professional and student researchers with a comprehensive collection of the latest research in these diverse fields.